Robert Marriner-Dodds (born December, 1991), is a British tabletop role-playing game designer best known for creating Carbon 2185 , A Cyberpunk RPG which has been featured in ''

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Personal life

Marriner-Dodds was born in Southend-on-Sea, England. He studied

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at college and

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. Marriner-Dodds has a sister, Cassandra Dodds and a daughter (born 2018). Marriner-Dodds

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in October 2020 via social media.

Career

Dragon Turtle Games

Marriner-Dodds founded Dragon Turtle Games in 2016 while in

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. Between 2017 and 2018 through Dragon Turtle Games he wrote and published Dragon Drop Adventures 1, 2, and 3, a series of simple adventures for

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designed to be easy to run for new gamemasters. In 2019, after a successful crowdfunding campaign on

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Marriner-Dodds wrote and released Carbon 2185 , A Cyberpunk RPG. The crowdfunding campaign for Carbon 2185 reached more than 14 times the funding amount required to publish the game and was, at the time, the most funded cyberpunk project ever to appear on Kickstarter. Carbon 2185 went on to receive widespread acclaim and was featured in various publications such as Forbes, New Scientist, and RPG Net.

Studio Cerca

In early 2020 Marriner-Dodds and his sister Cassandra Dodds co-founded Studio Cerca. Through Studio Cerca, the siblings intend to write and publish family friendly Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Content inspired by the works of Japanese director

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and the films of

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References

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